Portable Update - A Windows Update Alternative in Windows 10?

I have Installed Windows 10 Enterprise (NON LTSB) RTM x86 in my PC, and I have some questions about Portable Updates:
- Is it enough to disable Windows Update Service?
- If I re-enable it, will Windows Updated detect installed updates installed via Portable Update?
- If I disable Windows Update Service, will still work this Windows Defender Update Command Line?

Code:

"%PROGRAMFILES%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -SignatureUpdate

- Are available scheduling tools or command line for searching \ installing updates by Portable Update?
- Does Portable Updates install Current Branches (Stable) Updates? I don't want that it install Insider (Beta) Updates! (I know there is this possibility, but I canceled my Insider Program registration)
How it choose the branches?
- Does Portable Updates install New Feature Updates (to clarify, those that Enterprise LTSB ignores)?
- Does Portable Updates install Optional Updates?
- Does Portable Updates install New Device Drivers?
- Does Portable Updated detect installed updates installed via Windows Update?
- How to delete Downloaded Updates?
- Does Portable Updated store Uninstaller?
If yes, how to delete them?

 

this prgram sucks for win10 as the updates are cumulative which means you are downloading all patches again each time you want to update.

eg. yesterday i downloaded kb3081436 update which was 360mb
now today there is kb3081438 which is slightly larger download so it includes all updates i already downloaded.

I assume the normal windows update only downloads what you need not everything like this

 

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That's because it isn't designed for online usage...from the program's introduction:

Portable Update is a windows-base tool for updating a Microsoft Windows computer in a isolated environment.
This is useful in many circumstances:

• When the computer reside on a secure lan isolated from internet;
• When the computer to update doesn’t have access or can't use a proxy server;
• When is necessary to completely update a fresh-formatted computer with the last update before to connect it to network;
• When the computer doesn’t have an hardware network connection at all;
• When the network connection speed is too low or it is necessary to update the computer very quickly;
• In all the other cases when is mandatory to have the complete control on the updating process without connecting the computer to the network.

 

How does this compare to the other windows update softwares around? So many of them! What is best?

 

Not bad. For people who don't want WU installing drivers and want it turned off, this is a good program. Some of the other ones use WU itself, so by the time you use it, WU has reinstalled what they don't want.

 

I tried this on Windows 7 but it's taking forever..... "Waiting for search results". It's been over 1 hr since it started and it's still searching.

 

Is there some tool of its kind that is completely independent of the WU process (disabled service)?

ps: While searching for patches with this tool (PU) I have disabled WU service and the tool has automatically returned me an error, therefore it's dependent of.

 

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I noticed the tool does restore a stopped and disabled Windows Update service when it starts. It does so without asking. That's when I stopped using it.

 

Thanks for the heads up.